#hacked is more like it

[tiredboogawwo]

Overlord!PossessedZane Au

This Au is kinda one I've had for a long time, but it's been mostly just in my head. (It's a kinda old) Basically:

This Au is the aftermath of Zane's first death. This one takes place during the tournament of elements. The overlord, knowing it's going to lose, swaps consciousness over to Zanes body at the last second, escaping the scene while the ninja are left grappling with the fact they think he's gone.

Zane doesn't have enough power to stay conscious during, and a while after the overlords switch. Along with that, the overlord is stuck in a kinda destroyed body, and messed up code. This leads him to getting caught by some people sent by Chen. With heavy injuries, and no technology near, he is easily defeated.

This leads him to the ✨Island✨ Chen needs Zane there so he can lure in the ninja, and the OL needs internet access to continue his work, which leads to a deal. The OL can't access the network from the island because it's all on Chen's own private network. Chen would help him in his goals (haha he's lying to you bro) in return for his cooperation. So basically:

The Overlord in Zane's body joins the Tournament of Elements disguised, slowly hacking into more and more of Zanes systems and being able to use his element more, the Ninja just want their friend back not knowing one of the foes they are facing is the very man, and Zane is fighting to keep control in a body that is slowly having its files deleted and corrupted by the very thing he died to destroy.

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This is a really old au, I've added some stuff and changed a bit, if you've heard some of this before on Amino or in a small fic it was probably me. I might do some more art

Please comment any questions or ideas you have for this au! I like hearing what people think

[psalidodont]

Eel graveyard

[chemicalarospec]

one of the posts on this website that haunts me is the one that claims neurotypicals instinctively know to read faster by reading the first and last paragraphs of an article and then skimming it if confused. I can't even begin to understand how someone would form such a bizarre belief.

[aquanutart]

[valtsv]

this quote about cordyceps from this article in a scientific magazine is basically how i've always imagined possession to work in horror stories. the demon/entity/whatever doesn't alter your perception, displace you, or control your mind, they just take over all your bodily processes, bypassing your brain entirely. they force your mouth and vocal cords to form the words they want you to say, force your limbs to move in the direction they want you to go, and force your lungs to keep expanding and contracting and your heart to keep beating, even through excruciating pain and horrific injury, so you can't even self-sabotage and your friends and loved ones are discouraged from trying to stop you for fear of what harm they might cause you to do to yourself to escape. you're a passenger in the driver's seat of your own car, and the hands on the wheel, though outwardly apparently the same pair you've always had, are no longer your own.

[doctorcanon]

So ocarina of time goes to great lengths to show that the Hero of Time doesn't kill anything that's not a monster. If you shoot a patrolling Gerudo, you knock her out. One of the ones that ambush you even says that he hit her with the flat of his sword. He doesn't (can't?) kill the Skull Kids that attack him as an adult in the Lost Woods. This continues into Majora's Mask when he moves to restrain the Skull Kid rather than attack him even thought he has a sword. And even in Twilight Princess. Even though it's only briefly mentioned in the manga and hyrule historia about how careful The Hero's Shade is with the Hero of Twilight.

ALL I'M SAYING IS: The Hero of Time is actually an incredibly gentle person and Zelda bound Ganon at the end to protect Link from having to kill him a second time.

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

[kaogens]

i gave up on this ignore all the mistakes ☝️☝️

[mykashg]

You know for comedians, you're all a little out of touch.

HACKS Season 3, Episode 4 "Join the Club"

[loupy-mongoose]

I can feel my Jamie fixation slipping away, but at least there's something to replace it with this time.

Recently someone got me thinking about a particular shiny hunt I'd started ages ago (possibly over a year) and never finished.

The hunt for a shiny female Cyndaquil.

While I've been lucky in the past and stumbled into shiny female starters and others of a similar gender ratio, this is the first time I've sought out a female. And I have a very specific reason for it.

My first ever Soul Silver file, the game I hold the deepest love and nostalgia for due to several factors.

To start that file, I knew two things; One, my starter would stay a Quilava. Two, I wanted it to be female. So I reset and reset for a female Cyndaquil, finally getting her and naming her Quince.

In that game I ended up with; Quince the Quilava Stella the Furret Pigeon the Pidgeot Mary the Ampharos Cobra the Arbok and Victor the Victreebel.

These guys joined me as I poked every corner of Johto and Kanto, sought out every secret. They comforted me as I moved from one home to another. I had them before I knew about Nuzlockes, before I used natures to build character off of. Likely before Jamie was a thing. This file was so well loved that I completed it's 493-count Pokedex without the use of Action Replay. (Although cheated Pokemon from Diamond and Pearl probably had a heavy hand in that, lol.) They are currently sitting in Home at around level 90 from our time spent together.

And so, when I noticed a very real opportunity, I decided it would be fun to rebuild the team in shiny form.

I got Pigeon, Cobra, and Victor in Let's Go a long time ago now, and soon after that I started the hardest of the group; Cyndaquil. That hunt being in Legends Arceus. I got a few shiny males before my drive drifted away and I went on to other things.

But a few days ago I picked it back up... and the first shiny I got was female.

So I now have my beloved Quince in shiny form!

She's staying a Cyndaquil for now, but one day she will reach her final form as a glorious Quilava~

Currently I have two more to get; Stella the Sentret, and Mary the Mareep. Both of which I'll be Radar hunting in Shining Pearl. ^^

[crystalpallette]

no witty caption today; I just love ringo hiii ringoooo

[iidsch]

also more codelyokoposting but I really really dig XANA as a villain. It's not a person with a complex background that led them down the path of evil, it's not a morally grey character you sympathize with but condemn. It's a powerful AI capable of controlling almost anything in the real world. It doesn't have a face or a body, we only know it for its symbol and for the monsters it controls in the virtual world. It's willing not just to kill people through various methods (poisoning, drowning, car crash, fucking space lasers too?) but also Earth as a whole (it tried to blow up a NUCLEAR PLANT and crash two trains with toxic chemicals in them). And we don't even know why it does this, at least not for now. It may not even have a particular reason, just some sort of virus or malware in the form of an AI that seeks nothing but destruction without any goals in mind. This "pure evil" characteristic doesn't come off as childish, like in some children cartoons, it's just kind of scary to think that such an incomprehensible and destructive force exists, almost feels like a natural disaster

[loewens]

Stray child

[hippydippydruid]

I know the formless spawn is supposed to be like this big bad eldritch boss but it’s literally just a little guy in my mind.

Wdym that’s the big bad monster that’s literally a baby it’s adorable

[fromtheseventhhell]

Imagine being 9 years old and asking your dad about the things you're interested in doing when you grow up and he's like "No ❤️! But you can get married, have babies, and then maybe your sons can do those things ☺️🫶 "

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

they are so so soooo Important to me...